The Iraq war in pictures

Look back at more than a decade of war in Iraq, which is now once again the target of U.S. airstrikes.

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In February 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell presented evidence to the United Nations Security Council that Iraq had biological weapons and argues in favor of military action. Powell later admitted he had presented what turned out to be an inaccurate case to the UN on Iraqi weapons, and the intelligence he was relying on was, in some cases, "deliberately misleading."

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